Hi,
On 2011-08-11 20:07, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Using "strace -f -e execve" we can find the failing syscall:
>
> [pid 7256] execve("/bin/sh", ["sh", "-c", "echo 'VERSION
> 2\nacquire::cdrom::"...], [/* 17 vars */]) = -1 E2BIG (Argument list too long)
>
> Presumably this was already known. :)
Uhh. Perhaps yes in the time of writing, but without TODO it easily got
forgotten.
> A natural fix would be to tweak
> PackagesWorker::__do_dpkg_pre_packages_actions to set up a pipe and
> write to it instead of composing a huge echo statement.
Agreed.
Thanks for the report!
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Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer
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